Jean Berko Gleason is a psycholinguist who is now a professor emerita at Boston University. She shared how we learn and use the most valuable of skills: human language. She's best known for her wug test experiment, revealing that children develop general systems to learn language.

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All the tweets are informative, five are noteworthy. 3. Dr. Gleason "doesn't do religion". If the rest of humanity didn't do religion with her, about half the conflict which characterizes our existence would vanish. 21. "Different languages [do not] cut the world into different slices." Our different beliefs are what cut the face of humanity. Language allows us to "reach out to the limits of our capacities (9), to others (14), and to God.(25) as explained here. http://www.thelastwhy.ca/poem/

Krista, I'm a huge fan and avid listener of your On Being programs...very interested in this content, but find the twitterscript communication channel choppy and distracting from the essence of the message.